Connecticut Shooter's Family statement

	Connecticut Shooter's Family statement Statement read by local officials, Father and brother of suspect taken in for questioning. (CNN) -- As with many murder-suicides, the suspect in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting took to his grave the reasons that compelled him to kill more than two dozen people before taking his own life in the second deadliest school shooting in US history. But those who knew the alleged shooter grasped to reconcile the difference between the quiet, withdrawn 20-year-old without a criminal record and the man who donned black fatigues and a military vest and rained hell at the Newtown, Connecticut, school last week. Police say the shooter was Adam Lanza, and that he killed his mother, Nancy, in their home before walking into the school and spraying with bullets 26 more people --20 of them children no older than 7. The rampage ended when Lanza apparently took his own life in a classroom. With him were three firearms: a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle and two handguns, a Glock and a Sig Sauer. Connecticut law requires gun owners to be at least 21 years old. The guns, authorities said, belonged to his mother. Police have yet to disclose a motive for the attack -- which left those who knew Lanza trying to discern whether anything in his past could have foreshadowed the present. Comforting survivors: 'Hug them' and 'cry with them' Lanza moved to Connecticut from Kingston, New Hampshire, with his parents and older brother Ryan, according to a booklet for the town's Newtown's Bennetts <b>...</b>	From: Laydeedicy Views: 1 0 ratings
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